Retail Sector – Retailers’ Financial Arms Fuelling Their Ambitions
PORTUGAL – Still on track for international expansion, Oney just launched their instalment service in Portugal.
FRANCE – Discussions are underway between BPCE and Auchan...

Players’ Strategy
UNITED STATES – PayPal falls short of expectations and reports $4.23Bn instead of $4.24Bn for Q4 2018. Even so, they still witness strong growth due to recent acquisitions (iZettle and Hyperwallet) as well as Venmo’s encouragi...

FACTS
The P2P lending platform Zopa was granted a banking licence in the end of 2018. They now intend to take their strategy one step further based on Open-Banking derived possibilities: a strategy they already started looking into.